Combined latch or bolt and handle.



' PATENTED MAR. 19, 1907.

J. FAIX.

COMBINED LATCH 0R BOLT AND HANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 5.1906.

g M l 0 ATTORNEY I STATES PATENT oFFIoE.

JOHN FAIX, or SAN- FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

COM-BINED'L'ATO'H on BOLT- AND- HANDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented m sh 19, 1907.

Application filed November 6, 1906- Serial No. 342.141. I

To will whom it may concern I i Be it known that I, Jam: Fm, a subjectof the Austrian Empire, residing at San Francisco, in the county ofSan--Francisoo'and State of California, have invented new and' useful ImrovementsinCombined Latch 01' Bolt and andle, of which the following isa specification. v

This-invention "relates to a combined bolt or latch and handle forfastening doors, windows, sliding drawers, file-cases, and the like, theobject of the invention being to provide a device which shall containfew parts, which ner side of-the front detached Fig. 7 is a can bereadilyoperated to firmly'secure the part to which it is attached, andwhich will also furnish a convenient handle for opening the door orwindow or withdrawing the sliddrawer, filecase,,or the like.

theaccompanying drawing, Fi e 1 is a perspective view of my' deviceattac ed to a doorin the locking position; Fig. 2 isa similar .viewshowing the device applied toa drawer. Fig. 3 is a pers ective view ofthe device,-showing the back etached. Fig. 4-is a'similarview showingthe bolt. Fi 5 is a gerspective view of the inner side of t e backetachedl Fig. 6 is a similarjview of the inlongitudinal section throughthe device.

Referring to the drawing, Lindicates the front casing-section, and 2 therear casingsection. Saidsections are secured together .and also securedto a door, drawer-front or holes 4. The

the like by screws 3 throng1 front section is formed wit side walls 56,

the longer sides 5 being cut away or recessed to receive ears 7,extending forward at right angles from the back, the ends of said ears'having recesses'S to-form half-,bearin s for the cross-bar 9 of aloop-shaped hand e 10.

a 'The other half of said bearings is formed by a groove 11, formedtransverselyin the. inner surface of the front section of the. casing.Sa d cross-bar has extending therefrom a short lug 12 and a long'lug' orarm 13 extend mg at an angle with the short lug, said lugs. beingadapted to engage recesses'in the inner side of thebolt 14, whichslides'through a guide-hole -15 in the wall 6 of the front section.A-flat spring 17 is secured at its rear ends 18 to the front section,and the front end of said s ring bears down upon the rear end of the b0t and presses it agalnst the lugs 12 13 on the cross-bar.

When the device is in position secured to a door or draweragainstopening.

the door, it is onlynecessary to take hol of door 19, as shownin Fig. 1or' to a drawer 20,

as shown in F' 2, or to-other parts which it maybe desire to secure andthe handleis turned down against the casing, the long arm 13, extendingfrom the cross-bar,

resses said bolt against the frame of the door or into the socket in thestrildng-plate or against. the artitionstrip above the drawer or the l'e and firmly'secures said To 0 en the end' ofthe handle and pull itoutward when the same force which 1s a plied to pull the door openwithdraws the oltfrom the door-frame. The same movementtakes place inpulling out adrawer, filing-case, -or

. the like.- i

The use of the l s 12 13,is preferable to that of one only, athough thelatter construction is not inoperative. The two lugs screws, all ofwhich parts are very easily made. The construction of the front and rearsections by which the ears extend from the rear section into recessesformed in side walls of the front section to formbearings .for' thecross-bar of the handle greatly re dpces the cost; i

I claim '1. A'device of comprising the front and rear casing-sections,one of said sections having walls with sock-- ets and the other havingears projecting into said sockets, said ears having recesses in theirends, and the-other section having a transverse groove, said groove andrecess the character described,

forming a bearing, a handle having a cross-' bar in said bearing, a'bolt, the cross-bar have ing means engaging-said bolt to .project thesame, and a spring pressing said bolt against said means, substantiallyas described. I p

2. A device of the character described, comprisin the fronta'nd r'earcasing-sections, one of sai sections having walls with sockets and theother having ears projecting into said'sockets, .said ears havingrecesses in their ends, and the other section having a transversegroove, said groove and recess forming a bearing, a handle having acrossbar in said bearing, a bolt, the cross-bar having a shortarm'substantially in the plane of the handle and a long arm at rightangles thereto, both ofsaid arms engaging said bolt to roject the same,and a spring'pressing sai bolt against said means, substantially asdescribed. y e

3. A device of the character described, comprising a bolt havinga recessin one side, a 100 -shaped handle having a cross-bar provide With, atransverse extension entering said recess in the bolt to project andretract the same, a bearing for said cross-bar, and a spring pressingagainst the other side of the bolt to maintain said recess in engagementrecesses in engagement with said stantlally as described.

with said extension, substantially as described.

. j 4. A device of the character described, comprising a bolt havingrecesses in 'one side, a 100 -shaped handle having a cross-bar providewith lugs adapted to enter said recesses to project and retract thebolt, a bearing for the crossbar,and a spring pressing against the otherside of the bolt to maintain said lugs, sub- In testimony whereof I havehereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN FAIX. Witnesses D. B. RICHARDS, FRANCIS M. WRIGHT.

